Template talk:Infobox Indycar race

Revamp

Hai guys (if anyone even bothers reading some obscure infobox template's talk page),
Following a correction to some minor vandalism on the Indianapolis 500 page, the infobox there went from displaying like this to this. In my subsequent attempt to get the logo displayed again, I discovered the correcting editor had actually filled the field in correctly and that the Indycar infobox template did not, in fact, contain an appropriate field for a race logo (the version which displays a logo had actually linked it to the 'Track_map' field). Anyhow, I decided to do a quick examination of the template design for another racing infobox (specifically, the one on this page) and I found it suffers from the opposite problem (it contains a Logo field but no Track_map field). So, basically, I decided to embark on a revamp of the infoboxes in the hopes of maybe standardizing the format so all of a race's relevant, useful info can be included across the various racing formats.

So if I may direct your attention here, I'd like some input on the tweaks before I go off incorporating it as a polished root template and cause the whole of wikipedia to burst into flames as a result of my shoddy coding skillz. The external link is necessary because you have to look at the code, not the actual displayed infoboxes (as they appear very similar without any actual field data in them). One of my objectives in polishing this was to retain backwards compatibility so implementing the new version wouldn't go off and break every instance of the class that's been called throughout the project. Lemme know what you think.
--K10wnsta (talk) 22:50, 9 June 2010 (UTC)